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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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